In the Democratic primary it's looking more and more like it will be a dead heat between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. So which candidate do the Republicans want to run against in the general?
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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-05)/College of William & Mary joins Thom, where he goes off on Dick Cheney.
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For much of the 20th century - American presidents built on the policies of FDR's New Deal. That all changed with Reaganism in the 1980s. So which presidential candidate can bring about a new age of American progressivism?
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TJ Helmstetter, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) joins Thom Hartmann. The Trans Pacific Partnership is being negotiated behind closed doors - so We the People are forced to rely on leaks for any information on the so-called free trade deal. Well - there's been another leak - and it's a real doozy. What does it say about the role corporations are playing in the deal?
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Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann. The Coming Economic Crash...And What We Can Do About It .
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A vast majority of Americans of all political persuasions want to overturn Citizens United. So why isn't the mainstream media talking abou it?
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Dr. Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World joins Thom to talk about the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. Malcolm X was one of the most influential political leaders of the 20th century. So why doesn't he get his fair due from the mainstream media?

Neil McCabe, One America News Network joins Thom. 80 years after FDR finally gave unions the legal protections they deserved - the labor movement is in dire straits. So isn't it time to make card check elections the law of the land?
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the idea that Apple avoids taxes is "political crap." But the simple fact is - corporations are paying fewer and fewer taxes in America - and the American taxpayer has been making up the difference.
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Congressman Alan Grayson explains Fake Trade and Blasts the TPP. We're be bringing you the exclusive world premiere, right here on The Big Picture tonight, of his film highlighting what exactly is wrong with NAFTA and the TPP. Don’t miss this - go to TradeTreachery.com.
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In a stunning upset - Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the UK's Labour Party. The rise of Bernie Sanders and the election of Jeremy Corbyn shows that Americans and Brits are getting sick and tired of corporatists running the show. They want real progressivism and real change, not Reaganism-lite.
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That's right - free money! Conservatives love to complain about so-called "entitlements" and government waste. I’ll tell you about one solution that will completely eliminate waste without leaving people desperate.
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Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann. The Coming Economic Crash...And What We Can Do About It .
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Professor Harvey Kaye, The Fight For The Four Freedoms: What Made FDR And The Greatest Generation Truly Great/University of Wisconsin at Green Bay joins Thom. Seventy-Five years ago next week - FDR gave one of his most important public addresses - the so-called Four Freedoms speech. What lessons does that speech hold for us today - in 2015?
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Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom. The worst nuclear accident in recent history wasn’t unexpected - that’s according to an internal document recovered from Tokyo Electric Power - also known as Tepco. Tepco originally claimed that it had done everything possible to protect the nuclear power plant at Fukushima. But we now know that Tepco executives had discussed the need to build up coastal defenses back in 2008 - two and a half years before the tsunami hit Fukushima and caused a triple meltdown.
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Growing numbers of Americans are refusing to vaccinate their children because they think vaccines are causing autism. But it's not the vaccines that appear to be one cause of neurological disorders, it's something else. Now, a senior CDC vaccine safety scientist has invoked the protection of the Federal Whistleblower Statute, and is claiming that the CDC knew that thimerosal was unsafe, but pressured him to publish studies claiming otherwise.

Adam Browning, Vote Solar, joins Thom Hartmann. It's not all fun in the sun in Hawaii right now. Why are Hawaiian utility companies trying to block solar power in the Aloha State - and how are residents fighting back?
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Can broccoli stop the spread of cancer? Researchers at the South Dakota State University Department of Health and Nutritional Sciences say “YES!” LIVE from D.C. starting at 7pm eastern. http://rt.com/on-air/rt-america-air http://FSTV.org
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Morris Pearl, The Agenda Project & Jerry Fiddler, Zygote Ventures joins Thom. Jimmy Carter has called America an oligarchy based on how much influence the rich have over our political process. But there's one group that's showing that's is possible to be a millionaire and still stand up for our country's patriotic principles.
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Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) joins Thom. All across America - law enforcement agencies are using a special technology to collect information from your cell phones. What is Stingray technology - how is it used - and why is everyone trying to keep it a secret?
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Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann. The Coming Economic Crash...And What We Can Do About It .
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National Public Radio is supposed to be unbiased in how they report on controversial issues - but can that really be the case - when one of their biggest commentators moonlights at Fox so-called News?
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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-05)/The College of William & Mary joins Thom. Congress is out of session - but the opposition to the Iran nuclear deal isn't slowing down. Congress is out of session - but the opposition to the Iran nuclear deal isn't slowing down. Find out who's fighting against the deal and what we can expect going forward.
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Gaius Publius, joins Thom. Microsoft is billing Windows 10 - its new operating system - as "the future" "But what kind of future?" is the question many tech and privacy experts have been asking ever since the first shipments hit the shelves in late July. Although the ads for Windows 10 feature smiling babies and happy families - many are skeptical of the operating system. Why? Well - for starters - its privacy statement includes a paragraph that gives Microsoft the right to snoop on your data
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Now we find out the truth. The war on drugs was always about political power and race.
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Dr. Elizabeth Clarkson PhD, Wichita State University, joins Thom. Thom asks Elizabeth how and why did she realized that there might be something going on with these voting machines and what her lawsuit is about.
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Historian Kenneth C. Davis, The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah, joins Thom. Most Americans could tell probably you that July 4 is about America declaring its independence from Great Americans. But how much do they really know about the Revolution that turned the world upside down and made us light fireworks.
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Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour & Gaius Publius, Independent Writer joins Thom. Two strong candidates have announced that they're running for the democratic presidential nomination. But the media is acting like it's Hillary Clinton against the Republican party. We’ll break through the media's "Wave of Silence" later in the show.
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All Bernie Sanders wants to do is make America more like Scandinavia. So why is MSNBC's Chris Matthews talking about him like he's the next Mao Tse Tsung? The mainstream media is so scared of Bernie Sanders that it's now resorted to fearmongering about how he's a "socialist" who wants the government to take over the economy. Check it out...
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Conservatives are going absolutely bonkers over the latest AP U.S. history curriculum. But as silly as this controversy looks on the surface - conservatives have every right to be afraid of history class.

Thom speaks with Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network. As the San Carlos Apache rally to save their sacred land - other Native American groups are taking a stand on the biggest environmental issue of the year: the Keystone XL pipeline. The Indigenous Environmental Network is leading one of the biggest campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and keep the promises made to native americans decades ago.

Over the weekend - one Topeka Kansas waitress took Governor Sam Brownback to task for his failed experiment in Reaganomics.
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Thom's guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is award-winning historian Steve Fraser. Currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University - Steve is one of America's leading labor historians and is the co-founder - along with Tom Engelhardt - of the American Empire Project books series. Steve is also the editor-at-large of the journal New Labor Forum and is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books - including his latest -"The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power" - a fascinating look at America's new Gilded Age. From the Sons of Liberty to the Wobblies - America has always been a revolutionary country. So why with wealth inequality at record highs does it now seem like everyday Americans are terrified of taking on the powers that be?

Patricia Goldstone, Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi joins Thom. Lots of people like to lay out complex networks and connections of people and organizations who are behind certain conspiracies. We'll be talking about one man who made those connections into an art.
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Courtney Weber, Wiccan Priestess/Writer/Activist joins Thom. On Friday July 31 - three family members were brutally murdered in their Pensacola, Florida home. Two of the victims died from blunt force trauma and also had their throat cuts - the third victim was shot in the head as he entered the house. And what is the mainstream media pushing as the reason for these murders? Their biggest suspects? Wiccans worshipping the blue moon - of course. And that only makes sense - because wiccans are blood drinking goat people who meet in the forest for dark cabals involving human sacrifice - right? WRONG!
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Kevin L. Kearns, United States Business & Industry Council (USBIC) joins thom. President Obama wants fast track trade authority and lawmakers in Congress - on both sides of the aisle - are trying to give it to him. Is the TPP a foregone conclusion now - or is there still time to stop this so-called free trade deal?
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Hughey P. Newsome, Project 21/Move-On-Up/The Objective Citizen & Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour & Charles Sauer, The Market Institute join Thom Hartmann. there's less than one week until democratic front runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton square off in the first of six presidential debates. But it might not be talk in the debates that wins the support of rank-and-file union members - it might be a new piece of legislation. We’ll be talking about Bernie Sanders' "Workplace Democracy Act" and more
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Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch, joins Thom. The world's aquifers are quickly emptying - new satellite data shows.
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This country was started by revolutionaries fighting the power of large corporations. So isn't it time we made good on their legacy and took money out of politics once and for all?
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Growing numbers of Americans are refusing to vaccinate their children because they think vaccines are causing autism. But it's not the vaccines that appear to be one cause of neurological disorders - it's something else. now - a senior CDC vaccine safety scientist has invoked the protection of the Federal Whistleblower Statute - and is claiming that the CDC knew that thimerosal was unsafe - but pressured him to publish studies claiming otherwise.

Thom discusses what Ronald Reagan’s economic policies have done to America’s middle class with economist Richard Wolff, author of the book “Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.”
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Thom's guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is award-winning historian Steve Fraser. Currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University - Steve is one of America's leading labor historians and is the co-founder - along with Tom Engelhardt - of the American Empire Project books series. Steve is also the editor-at-large of the journal New Labor Forum and is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books - including his latest -"The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power" - a fascinating look at America's new Gilded Age. From the Sons of Liberty to the Wobblies - America has always been a revolutionary country. So why with wealth inequality at record highs does it now seem like everyday Americans are terrified of taking on the powers that be?

David Halperin, Republic Report/Stealing America's Future joins Thom. How did for-profit colleges become the big industry they are today?
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For tonight's Conversations with Great Minds - I'm joined by Mark Weisbrot - one of America's leading progressive economists. The co-founder and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research - Mark received his Phd in Economics from the University of Michigan. He's also the President of Just Foreign Policy - where he works hard to reform American foreign policy so that it reflects the values of "diplomacy, law, and cooperation." Mark is also the author the of a number of books - including his latest - the new book - "Failed: What the 'Experts' Got Wrong about the Global Economy."
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It's been nearly 6 years since Wall Street brought the global financial system to its knees - but most of the people responsible got off scot-free. So why weren't more of the crooks held responsible - and why is the former chairman of the Federal Reserve just now speaking out about it?
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Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch joins Thom. Costco is working to decrease it's use of Chilean farmed salmon in favor of Norwegian salmon.The reason why? A recent increase in antibiotic use in Chilean salmon farms. Chilean salmon farmers are using 25% more antibiotics now than they did in 2013 as they combat an outbreak of SRS bacteria in coastal water.
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Believe it or not - I actually agree with Donald Trump - at least when it comes to George W. Bush.
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For tonight's Conversations with Great Minds - Thom is joined by Gerald Posner. Gerald Posner was one of the youngest attorneys ever hired by the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and is the author of eleven books - including New York Times bestsellers - and one a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. Gerald has written dozens of articles for national magazines and papers and has been a regular contributor to a variety of television networks. He's also the author of the new book, "God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican."
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